t fonts, you can talk to anyone. ♪ -- captions by vitac -- >> now at seven, getting ready to ring in the new year in the bay area. >> stepping out this new year's eve. the final hours of 2013 will be chilly. i have the look at the numbers coming up. >> warty acres burned some day after you fire breaks out. officials call the grass fire suspicious. >> we are just five hours away from 2014 here in the bay area and new year's eve celebrations

are about to get underway. big crowds expected along santa goes waterfront where huge fireworks show will be set off at the stroke of midnight. christina is life where it will be him much different story in just a few hours. >> if you take the look here, you can see the barricade set up the couple of hours ago for the big crowds police are expecting. so far so good, but that will change as we inch closer to midnight. he did catch up with several people inside restaurants and bars and they basically want to spend your evening having good meal and ringing in the new year with great food and good company. a lot of people say they will eat and then go home but by the fireworks because they don't want to miss anything as far as the fireworks on television. >> we are very happy we are at another new year's. we do want to wish everyone out there remarkable and sane new

year's. >> for the other people we talk to that are trying to see the fireworks here, they are setting up shop along the sidewalk here. we talk to the group of friends, college students from berkeley who said the and here for an hour today and brought their own food, games just about the time till midnight. >> we wanted to loki new year's eve, so we thought, why not bring the people we love the most. >> police want to remind the public that they expect about 2000 people out here tonight so they will be out in full force looking for drunk drivers or people drunk in public. people will be taking public transportation also and for now, we are live in san francisco. >> all those people will pack the embarcadero and they want to know if it will be foggy

outside. what are we dealing with? >> mostly chris guys come vital think you have any trouble with patchy fog. tonight you will have little trouble with the cold. temperatures and the 40s and areas. now that reporting 37, the deep 2 degrees right now and sent cisco and if you are thinking about heading out to celebrate, maybe to watch the fireworks, i expect temperatures to continue to fall. 50 reason and upper 40s by 10:00. i'll have the look at what you can expect for the first day of 2014 coming up. be mac oakland firefighters will be keeping close eye on the oakland hills tonight. residents there that sparks from illegal are risk of office can fire you people who live in the hills say they will be keeping their eyes and ears

open as well. >> we have a lot of kids in the area so there will be some broke fireworks going off. hopefully people can use common sense. >> illegal fireworks are no small problem as you can see from this video this past fourth of july. firefighters are urging people to call them if they see fireworks. the california highway patrol is looking for drunk drivers, but despite holiday that it's in the middle of the week the chp expects just as many arrested last year. >> this family from vacaville is fun to watch fireworks and then stay in san francisco. >> the traffic, drinking and driving is not safe. >> michelle mulholland of us to friend years ago. >> they were hit drunk drivers on new year's eve. >> that's what these dui

checkpoints are for. but it's not just alcohol. new this year in los los angeles, they will be armed with portable devices the test saliva for marijuana, cocaine another drug use. in the bay area, the chp has officers on can patrol tonight ashley trained to detect drugs. >> it will be focused on those people that may not have been drinking but are under the influence of other drugs. >> many people were arrested last year and they expect similar numbers this year. in the city chp officers will be on patrol, the change in tactics checkpoints. >> chp may not be running at checkpoint tonight but but they have one of the biggest joke.of all, the bay bridge. expect too see many more officers here tonight. >> it's not problem for the mulholland family i'm spending new year's safely off the road.

>> there going to have fun here and stay here. >> so here are some public transportation options for tonight. entrance and caltrain are also free and the final southbound train departs at fourth and king's station in san francisco at 2:15 a.m. it will run until 3:00 a.m. an agreement has been reached the san francisco fire department in the family of the girl killed in the aftermath of the airline crash this summer you the department will release video from hellmuth and other fire truck cameras. the 16 -year-old was turnover by fire truck in the wake of the july 6 crash. the family filed legal papers yesterday asking for the video to be released, after the san francisco fire chief said she couldn't give up the

information because the investigation by san francisco police and the ntsc. for those agencies say they no longer longer need control of the recording. an engine fire proctor divac wishes of adult in the airlines.today. airport officials say it happened at the minneapolis bound flight was preparing for takeoff. the fire was contained to the engine. the engine fire was reported after the flight had been delayed because of fog. new year's eve for some firefighters means ringing in 2014 while monitoring grass fires. not away for firefighters to celebrate this time of year, but fair crews were in summertime vote today. >> cal fire helicopters began swooping into the mount hamilton area this morning shortly after 5:00 a.m. after the vehicle fire of some kind ignited dry vegetation that fueled claims.

>> when it came down from the observatory, you could see it two-mile long fire line. want to smoke coming out. >> about 140 firefighters from cal fire and san jose swarmed into keep the fire from spreading around mount hamilton wrote. >> is a lot of room to run, so the goal is to keep it isolated between the highway and the dirt road down below. >> how much fuel was here? >> a lot of fuel. it's very dry, conditions are similar to what you'd see in mid-october. >> firefighters were able to contain the fire at 40 acres and then investigators began searching for of cause. is that there were two abandoned vehicles on mount helmets and road. one totally burned and the other vandalized and left the roadway. >> the fire started in the area where the vehicle that started the fire was found. we don't know if the fire was

started because it was started off by the vehicle for the vehicle started the fire. >> cal fire is keeping crews overnight check for hotspots. continuing coverage now, the emotional legal battle over the 13 -year-old on the ventilator at children's hospital. doctors declared her brain dead after complications following tonsil surgery. the state appeals court refused to petition by her family to order the hospital to insert breathing and feeding tubes. they work to kind of facility to take the little girl. they have until friday to file an appeal. >> i look at her and i feel as her mother on supposed to be able to help her in the hospital has my hands tied. i'm very sad.

>> hospital says it would be unethical to do surgery on the deceased person. the hospital remains under of court order to keep her on the ventilator until january seventh. the outpouring of support today to honor the little girl from livermore fighting brain cancer. inside the church of latter day saints more prayers were being given today. in the name of two and half year old delaney newton, friends and strangers give blood. three months ago she was diagnosed with the brings tumor. she's been through surgery, multiple rounds of chemotherapy and a lot of blood transfusions. >> she's had 14 transfusions between blood and play close since october and there's more to come. >> her family decided to hold blood drives as away to support the other children and families going through the same ordeal. target gets another black eye, this time over gift cards. but is it really being overblown? what are your wrists? and happy new year. 2014 is been run in across

various time zones across the world. and dry and mild weather will continue into the new year's and spare the air alert for wednesday. we will have a lot of what you can expect for the area.

>> in europe it's already new year's day. this is how the london i looked at midnight at the huge us wielded up tonight sky. the then told the hour and help bring in the new year. australia is one of the chris countries to celebrate the new year. we have the spectacular fireworks display set to music and an estimated one and half million people with fireworks busting off from the sydney

bridge. in dubai, eric/20 exterior of the world's tallest building, 2720 feet tall. at that was you by and guinness book of world records with the largest fireworks display ever. crowds gathered to watch the fireworks and they were the first ones treated to us secular water and light show before hand. occupy oakland is calling for new year's eve march tonight. it will start at 9:30 in front of city hall and and at north county jail on seventh street. the marchers don't have the permit and police will be standing by the demonstration becomes in the cities words, unlawful. tomorrow occupy oakland is active to join the rally of the fruit will bart station wrecking the anniversary of the shooting of oscar grant. san francisco police identified the man they say let them onto chase. 29 -year-old jock samuels started the chase as officers

approached his car. the chase went into cold gate park and the parolee crashed and was arrested. they only had the suspects car and another was hit by samuels car. 2013 comes to close and at least two east bay cities are showing an improvement in their crime rate. allie rasmussen explains why police in richmond and oakland see the reduction in the number of homicides. >> i'm an native of richmond, all my life. >> there are quite remembers when things were different. >> offense of danger and unsafe. >> there were 43 homicides and in the last three years, burger rates declined. >> the things in richmond are better. hopefully it keeps progress. >> in richmond, violent crime

overall has dropped. >> shootings, robberies, any type of sexual assault. >> police credit their resources, more than 40 detectives working from homicide to narcotics. >> the public has been a lot more work coming with information. >> loving god, take them home to be with you. >> close to 200 people gathered to pay their respects to oakland homicide victims. think columbus church hostess memorial every year on new year's eve. this year there are 80 crosses on display. the name of his best friend is on one of them. >> i'm that's a lot of time with them, like the memories i can never get back. >> like richmond, oakland has also seen it drop in the number of homicides this year, he nine compared to 129 last year, up

29 percent decline. but for grieving friends and family members it is not consolation in any city, the crime statistics hit close to home, one homicide victim is one too many. >> we are just getting word that former first lady barbara bush is hospitalized with respiratory trouble. we have learned that she was admitted to the houston hospital yesterday. she's gotten this from her husband, george each of you bush, as well as other family members. edd a -year-old is in great spirits and getting tested care. the us consumer economy rose. its index of consumer confidence rose to just over 70 in september near the back where it was before the port partial government shutdown in october. consumer, it's with that 72 in september. and, on wall street, the s&p 500 ended the day with a new record, making this year the best since 1997. all three major indexes ended

the day up. targets mass hiking of the units of credit and debit cards wasn't enough, the retail giant has apparently sold thousands of gift cards that don't work. the problem is that target the wrong authorization code on them. we have more on the problem it's getting target another black i. >> target cells some 40 million gift cards per year with an average value of $35 each, but are relatively small number, 40,000, we're sold within improper security card making them valueless when read to the registers card reader. for one target shopper successfully used her gift card, simply adds more doubt about target's overall ability to handle non- cash transaction. >> i differently take into consideration how i'd pay here. actually had target gift card. >> so what are the odds that you might get amos coded rfid card? only about one in thousand, and

that means there could be one out of the stack of the cards, 4-foot tall. it appears that many customers are willing to forgive and forget for now. >> i socket all the time, and it stops me from coming here. >> it's still great store, great prices. >> even target could boost customer it there anymore thefts or blunders. >> i would definitely say there is of marketing certain. >> i'd put think they certainly have it job to do. >> target will on it the impacted cards. is the guest discovers the gift card has not been activated, you can bring it to an target service desk or call for assistance. >> at the beginning of this newscast, our meteorologist said there should be not much fog for the fireworks in the

city, but for the rest of us, what are we up for tonight? >> well, if you don't show easy, temperatures are already beginning to sweat. 40s in parts of north bay, low 50's in san francisco, and i'll look here at storm tracker two. early on we have the clouds moving through and effective in just the little bit. and we have updated of an offshore flow that has developed once again and that will keep our skies clear has been evening hours and starts tomorrow morning. if you patches of fog perhaps but not bad at all. 51 and 10 cisco, oakland checking in at 49, and if you are stepping out to celebrate in oakland for the evening hours, 46 degrees and that will be in the mid- 40s when the

midnight hour strikes. then into the overnight hours and the low 40s will start tomorrow morning. right now, san jose taking in at 50 degrees. as we start today, 32 in fairfield, 33 in antioch. and 30 in santa rosa and around the day, of cool start but not as cold. it will be at chilly one along the peninsula. redwood city 363 oh, rudy nine in mountain view. tomorrow another spirit the air alert most of the bay area, and we had areas in the inner east district with moderate, but the rest of us, the shade of orange which means if you have or asthma or respiratory issues, this is something you should be aware of for the afternoon. the highs for tomorrow, 56 in

berkeley, 66 in redwood city, 66 in morgan hill and 65 in morgan day. we are showing you the first weekend of 2014 will be dry one. pay period thank you. progress in cost the county. this is part of the extension in antioch. and, at the day away from defending the rose bowl title. if you are on the go or away from your tv, you can still watch the newscast live on your computer, smart phone or tablet.

>> crews continued to make product progress on the eve or extension ajax. the spokesman for the developers says the parking lot is almost complete and the means facility is about 60% in us. 10million extension is still set to open in late to 17. it will use rail cars and diesel powered engines instead of electric rail. stanford friends are ready for the rose bowl game. players spent the week in southern california enjoying some pre- game to additions including the trip to disneyland. the team is ranked number five

in the nation. the coach says he's proud the cardinals have returned to the rose bowl for the second year in her role. and the bay area mother will be writing in the tournament of roses parade honoring the dream of her disabled son who passed away at 11 years old manteo lamarck was blind and the too short life in the wheelchair due to cerebral palsy. history must agree this playground and concorde for children of all abilities. the lions club use the playground to inspire it's for this year. details mother and and parens of other disabled children say they hope the flow splits the word about the importance of children of all abilities playing together. thank you for making ktvu your source for news. our coverage continues with the 10:00 news, and tonight, more on the bay area's biggest celebration. keep in mind, we are always here for you had at ktvu.com.

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